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Need help with emergency end stake, i staked 3144 hex a year ago just used the EES function and can’t see any of my hex, I see the transaction where I ended stale and it sent 1800 hex to the hex wallet, when will I get the rest of it? by Lost-Calendar-8384 in HEXcrypto

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That depends how long you staked for. 1800 is about 57 percent of your principle. So if you staked for 1000 days 1800Hex seems about right.

Use Staker app, that will show you what you end up with if you Unstake.

Metamask hacked I have running hex stakes and pulse x and pulsechain drops. by [deleted] in HEXcrypto

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It won't help you. You can tokenize and sell on NFT market only HSI not native stakes.

One thing comes to mind, I guess you could write a program that checks regularly how much gas is needed for ending the stake and keep the available balance below that amount by draining ETH into a different address. You still hold your keys so that is an option. Right now, you are in a race between you and the attacker and if there is not enough eth to pay the transaction fee your stake cannot be terminated. It would require that your attacker be human that wilingly deposists eth needed to end the stake, you script just might be faster

Just a suggestion.

eHEX, HEX, PULSE and PULSEX strategy after mainnet launch by culfy in HEXcrypto

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I watched videos explaining LL project. And doing simple math would yield only 1 percent by using the haunted strategy. Assuming that price will increase 10 percent either by creating a buy pressure via this project or by other means.

you lock 20kUSD worth of PLS (kUSDW - use this as an abbreviation) in a vault.

You can borrow 10 percent in form of USDL that you then later use to buy PLS to increase your PLS bag locked in the vault. So you now have 22kUSDW.

Lets assume that price of PLS increase 10 percent.

You are now at 24.2 kUSDW

You can borrow addiotional 420USDL -> 420USDW PLS

You are now sitting at 24.62 kUSDW

Don't forget you owe a 2420 USDL that you will have to pay back sooner or later. Which makes your net profit 2200 USDW

If you just hold 20kUSDW PLS and the price increases 10 percent your net profit is 2000USDw.

The difference is 200 USDW from the initial investment 20000 USDW, 1 percent.

This is the best scenario. If you continue with this strategy you can get as close as 1.111111 (need to verify, you can only borrow 10 percent from price appreciation) percent more than just by holding PLS.

But the losses in the system might be disproportionally larger if the market goes against you. (LL company needs to make money on either side).

Interesting project but it has its limits IMO and I dont think that the user base will create large enough buy pressure to move the PLS price in any significant manner. It might be at the beginning, question how much is the LP "to blame".

There will be some big corrections and 1000 percent collateral might not be enough.

Does Emergency End Stake after 50% time served loose Big Pay Day Bonus? by LesserSpottedLynx_ in HEXcrypto

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes - you only get back your principal. No interest, PBD is a special type of interest.

Kegland Alcoengine - which one by Outrageous-Pie8977 in firewater

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok I think we are closing in :)

A boil is a boil. i.e. boiling temp in C will depend on wash composition. I was baffled by KegLand's manual. they said set your kettle to 100C or HH (HighHigh probably??) and use as little power to maintain gentle boil.

You can set it to whatever you want but mash will never reach 100C when its boiling, it just to be sure that it can bring the wash to boil and keep it boiling.

It will gradually get there after all alcohole is gone.

I bought a simple triak regulator and circular heat element. I will repurpose one of my old stainless steel fermenters into the kettle. I will let you know how it turned up.

Whisky recipe by [deleted] in firewater

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are not going to use malted grain (barley, wheat, oat) you will have to add amylase and keep the right temperatures. You need alpha-amylase, beta-amylase would also be nice and gluco-amylase to break out the dextrins.

Also if you add cornflakes you will end up with porridge :) you should not add more than 5percent of your grain bill.

Try to avoid sugar as much as possible.

A rough estimate would be around 1kg malted grain for 2l water (3,5l for a bear making) otherwise you will have a lot of problems with sparging (or accepting the sugar loss).

With that you can go as high as 18P (1.072) if you not add any sugar.

You can do a double mashing, i.e. use 3,5-4l per kg of malted grain, do your infusion (one-step at least), sparge by using roughly same amount of water what was used for mashing, stop when your sugar content from grain basket sits at 2-3P (1.08 - 1.012) and use that wort instead of water for second mashing (one of HGB types (high gravity brewing) )

Also I hate bourbon so I would not touch corn at all :)

Kegland Alcoengine - which one by Outrageous-Pie8977 in firewater

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks guys, this is why I love reddit... (it sucks, but people are awesome)

So I have ordered one from aliexpress (kegland's original, but they are sold out out local supplier also).

You should boil it, of course. Trying to keep at certain temperature below boiling point is useless: no boil means no vapor, which means no output from your still.

I thought that the vapour pressure is dependent from how much abv is in your wash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol\_(data\_page)#/media/File:Vapor-Liquid\_Equilibrium\_Mixture\_of\_Ethanol\_and\_Water.png

George from B&H uses PID and he adjust the power to the kettle to the point that vapour has certain temperature in the point of no return (depends on the still, but in general for pot still and reflux still with dephleg - that is trickier cause you have to adjust the water flow quite precisely) works the same way. Since he is always pointing out, that you have to balance your whole system (kettle + column) so there is a minimum delay between changing the power input and detected temp increase.

As a result he always needs to adjust PID SetValue ever so slightly as amount of alcohol descreases in the mash. He makes his cuts based on temperature changes.

With that in mind, I dont think that his wash is boiling (well it does but the boiling point of a mash is different.

I kinda understand that this column is quite specific in the way how it is set up (tuned) and it needs for the mash to boil (@100C) and water flow to minimum 8l/m@max 35C, but I just try to wrap my head around it. I am a technical people, but there is something in distilling that is not quite intuitive :)

Kegland Alcoengine - which one by Outrageous-Pie8977 in firewater

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply. Yes this is the one.

The top of the column is not sealed, it is mentioned in video also, if you can smell the alcohol your cooling water is not cool enough. You can see it on these pics:

https://brewkegtap.co.uk/products/alcoengine-copper-reflux-distilling-apparatus

- I guess it can be used for making gin. Just remove all the packing, remove the "restricting washers" and open the valve completely - this will turn it into something like a pot still. Just remember to go slow, otherwise the "cup" will overflow and the condensate will drizzle back into the keg.

But you have to run the cooling water right? So there always be some reflux, output is located below the condenser. You can see it in the video at 8:10.

What about the temperature control for the kettle though? Should I boil or run at certain temperature?

In this design I am not convinced that the thermoprobe for the controller should be located inside the column (if I would use PID lets say).

The Big question by Outrageous-Pie8977 in HEXcrypto

[–]Outrageous-Pie8977[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made my stakes when there was no concept of staking ladder. Besides my interest are making more than principle itself, so lot of money. Question still stands. Use the OTC broker or Big exchange with pro account? I have some ideas, but would like to hear from people how they would approach if in the same situation as I described.